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Submitted by loki (View user info) at 2008-03-16 21:24:25 EDT
There was an article in the paper today about the heir to the Ospina coffee family.
http://www.charlotte.com/505/story/537346.html
note: these are the people who brought the world Jean Valdez and currently sell coffee for about $100 a pound.
Which is not the point really. The point is that in reading this article it occurred to me that this sort of coffee is meant to be consumed in a very, ritualistic, formal sort of way. Ideally you would brew this coffee and sit and sip it while watching the sun rise over your vast estate and leisurely reading the morning paper.
How do I consume my coffee? Well it makes itself magically while I'm running. It's usually nice and piping hot about the time I get out of the shower. I select the cleanest looking coffee mug to slosh some into while I perform my usual rushing up and down the hall morning getting ready for work antics. The last thing I do before I leave the house is to slosh some more coffee from the automatic coffee maker into a travel mug for transport to the office. I could not possibly lower myself to drink from the community slop bucket that is the work coffee.
This is not exactly how you properly consume a cup of Ospina coffee, not at all.
Now granted I think this coffee is more the stuff of the leisure class but it makes me wonder if once upon a time people were more likely to engage in these sort of all consuming rituals.
Perhaps the closest I really get to this is drinking wine. I think our friends across the pond have an almost religious routine surrounding the drinking of tea. Or they claim to but I doubt it rivals the typical Japanese tea ceremony.
I just think that everyone's life is too complex and at break neck speed could we really stay entertained doing nothing for a morning that sitting there and just sipping coffee?
Of course if you want to find out you can get 2 ounces of Ospina coffee merely by agreeing to receive spam from them and paying shipping costs.
http://www.ospinacoffeecompany.com/survey/
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2008-03-18 20:11:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Hell yeah I'd love to try a cup of the kind bud of coffee.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-03-18 12:16:30 EDT (#)
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I usually sip Earl Grey in the morning whilst my Palm Treo relieves me of any residual faith in humanity that may have built up over the previous night. Emails like "I CAN'T GET MY WORK FILES FROM HOME! THE NETWORK MUST BE DOWN AND ANARCHY RULES THE STREETS!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!" followed closely by "LOLZ I forgot you have to connect to the internetz first" (don't ask me how they sent the first email) will do that to you.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-03-18 10:29:37 EDT (#)
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that's totally not how you engage on uber, fella.
you're supposed to say something disparaging about my appearance. maybe call my parentage into question. accuse me of engaging in sexual practices other than those which one would think were my actual preferred sexual practices. or, better than that, contend that i have never had sexual contact with another human at all. so many options and you went with a boring ass question mark...
you're quite bad at this uber thing and i totally hate you for it.
totally totally.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2008-03-18 07:04:50 EDT (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-03-17 14:39:58 PDT (#)
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Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2008-03-17 12:43:25 EDT (#)
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you know, there was going to be a whole lot of mess here about what an asshole i am...but i just don't have it in me tonight.
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No worries, you don't exactly make it difficult to fill in the lines.
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it amuses me to no end that you have some opinion of me based off of --i don't really know actually, something HILARIOUS probably -- and have gone out of your way to express that opinion a number of times, yet to me you're a non-entity altogether.
it's not like an 'omg and who are you noob' kind of thing on my part. it's just the fact that the only impressions or memories i have of you are the ones where you make some broad statement about me like the one above. but i have obviously been a big enough meanie to you at some point that you have to bring it up. is this like a closure thing for you? a victim of rape accosting their attacker sort of deal?
it's funny as hell.
listen, i'm sorry if i made your asshole pucker with rage at some point. okay? if you want to talk about your feelings some more, you can always do what the other loonies around here do and track down my email and tell me how i wounded you or maybe put something on uberboard about how fat and ugly i am. i hear that really helps with the whole closure thing.
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-03-17 19:46:09 EDT (#)
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uberboard: scourge is fucking fat
hahaha... i know it probably wasn't that macchu-picchu guy who did it, but it made me fel warm and fuzzy anyway!
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2008-03-17 17:50:47 EDT (#)
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Is "Jean Valdez" the retarded cousin of "Juan Valdez"? (of Columbian coffee fame)
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-03-17 17:39:58 EDT (#)
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Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2008-03-17 12:43:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
you know, there was going to be a whole lot of mess here about what an asshole i am...but i just don't have it in me tonight.
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No worries, you don't exactly make it difficult to fill in the lines.
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it amuses me to no end that you have some opinion of me based off of --i don't really know actually, something HILARIOUS probably -- and have gone out of your way to express that opinion a number of times, yet to me you're a non-entity altogether.
it's not like an 'omg and who are you noob' kind of thing on my part. it's just the fact that the only impressions or memories i have of you are the ones where you make some broad statement about me like the one above. but i have obviously been a big enough meanie to you at some point that you have to bring it up. is this like a closure thing for you? a victim of rape accosting their attacker sort of deal?
it's funny as hell.
listen, i'm sorry if i made your asshole pucker with rage at some point. okay? if you want to talk about your feelings some more, you can always do what the other loonies around here do and track down my email and tell me how i wounded you or maybe put something on uberboard about how fat and ugly i am. i hear that really helps with the whole closure thing.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-03-17 14:30:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i have almost 100% gone over to coffee from tea.
and i'm fat.
i'm turning yank.
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2008-03-17 13:53:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i think i'll just ride over to
Harris Teeters and buy me some
to try!
i love me some coffeee...
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2008-03-17 12:43:25 EDT (#)
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you know, there was going to be a whole lot of mess here about what an asshole i am...but i just don't have it in me tonight.
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No worries, you don't exactly make it difficult to fill in the lines.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2008-03-17 12:28:26 EDT (#)
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hiya loki. just got back from costa rica. pictures soon.
Submitted by moneyshotforyou (user info) at 2008-03-17 12:27:54 EDT (#)
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loki=auto+2
Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2008-03-17 10:26:05 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/18869
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-03-17 07:34:01 EDT (#)
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I hope your next post is one about how you eat cereal. This was fascinating.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-03-16 22:25:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
they drink folgers cystals at my office.
i do not partake.
i have a tea kettle in my office, a tin of varied teas, and a mess of plants to make the air in my space that much nicer. i watch the lowly ones go for their garbage coffee while i sip some high dollar tea from an expensive vessel and smirk at their lack of taste.
later in the day, after having thoroughly enjoyed my tea, i put on headphones and listen to music at a volume that is entirely too loud.
and i refuse to look up when one of these peons needs something and arrives at my door. i just remove one earbud and give them a superior, 'yes?' along with a raised eyebrow as i keep plugging away at whatever needs my expert attention at the moment.
THEY DON'T DESERVE EYE CONTACT FROM ME.
you know, there was going to be a whole lot of mess here about what an asshole i am...but i just don't have it in me tonight.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-03-16 21:47:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Instead of a communal coffee pot, we've got a nifty coffee service http://www.flavia.net/distributor/dist_2brew.htm
Nice and neat little single brew set ups so that one person can brew an espresso and then the next can brew a Costa Rica blend.
Unless it's the weekend, my ritual is to arrive at work, not speak to a soul (if at all possible), brew up a double Columbia blend, stand bleary eyed while it brews, squire it away to my desk, drink it, come alive and human, and then begin the day.
Tea rituals are fascinating.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-03-16 21:45:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
could not possibly lower myself to drink from the community slop bucket that is the work coffee.
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Amen to THAT!! Work coffee is pure grocery-store crap. Ours at home is made from freshly-ground beans, made with ambrosia water culled from natural springs available only to the Dolly Lama. :)
PS: Your lack of facility with commas extends to semicolons, as well. :)